Arnold Fanck
1889 - 1974
Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü
G.W. Pabst, Arnold Fanck
Gustav Diessl, Leni Riefenstahl
Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.
White Hell of Pitz Palu
Der Berg des Schicksals
Arnold Fanck
Hannes Schneider, Frida Richard
After a mountaineer is killed attempting to climb a difficult mountain, his son dreams of conquering the peak that has defeated his father. But his mother makes him promise never to attempt it. Events eventually force her to release him from the promise, and he ascends the mountain successfully.
Mountain of Destiny
S.O.S. Eisberg
Arnold Fanck
Gustav Diessl, Leni Riefenstahl
An expedition goes in search of a party lost in the Arctic the year before. The English language version of this German film was made at the same time but with a slightly different cast and released later that year as S.O.S. Iceberg, directed by Tay Garnett.
S.O.S. Iceberg
Das Wolkenphänomen von Maloja
Arnold Fanck
The cloud phenomena of Maloja are so well-known that some of them have names, such as the Maloja snake, a cloud bank that winds its way through the Alpine pass like a river. Clouds pass overhead, Fanck films them, just sufficiently to get the idea, among the crags of the Engadine, and gradually he connotes the wider scene, peopling the solitude and stillness below with a person or two, boating.
Cloud Phenomena of Maloja
Stürme über dem Mont Blanc
Arnold Fanck
Sepp Rist, Leni Riefenstahl
In a lonely outpost atop the treacherous Mont Blanc, an intrepid scientist lives with minimal connection to the world below. Through the telegraph, Hanes (Sepp Rist) communicates with a beautiful astronomer (Leni Riefenstahl) and is occasionally visited by an airplane pilot (Ernst Udet) upon whom he depends on supplies. In the midst of a ferocious snowstorm, Hannes loses his gloves and his weather station is battered by the elements. Suffering frostbite and unable to descend the mountain, he sends out a desperate S.O.S. in the hope that someone can brave the elements and rescue him from certain death. Eerily romantic and overshadowed by the constant threat of doom, Storm over Mont Blanc is a "quintessential " mountain film by Arnold Fanck, the genre's innovator and unparalleled master.
Storm Over Mont Blanc
Der ewige Traum
Arnold Fanck
Sepp Rist, Brigitte Horney
«Вечный сон» (название фильма в переводе с немецкого оригинала, под названием «На вершине Монблана» кинолента демонстрировалась в СССР) — немецкая альпинистская драма 1934 года о первом восхождении на Монблан. Городок Шамони на востоке Франции, конец 18 века: Жак Бальма, как и многие фермеры, мечтает взобраться на вершину Монблана. Когда король Савойи обещает в награду золото за первое восхождение, Жак осмеливается подняться.
Der ewige Traum
Atarashiki tsuchi
Arnold Fanck, Mansaku Itami
Setsuko Hara, Ruth Eweler
Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from Germany after having spent a number of years there studying. Now, he is supposed to marry Mitsuko, the daughter of his adoptive father, to whom Teruo has long been promised. But Teruo, who has gotten to know the freedoms of the western world, would rather marry the woman he loves and behaves brusquely to Mitsuko.
The Daughter of the Samurai
